Cost Estimating Definitions
I found this in Wikipedia and highly recommend this for review for all estimators, project managers and even people who are in accounting that work with budgets and day to day construction operations. This is actually better than what I find in most construction estimating…
Critical HeavyBid Information
I presented this course in the 2017 UGM. The information is still applicable so I am posting it for download. Every company should develop its own “best practices” for HeavyBid and estimating in general and while this is not a best practices manual it does…
Calculating Non-Standard Work Week(s) Overtime Factor
Recently I was in training where the customer wanted to do a non-standard work time period. In this case, it was a 13-day calendar but they wanted to calculate an overtime factor and use this as an override in the calendar setup. So I set…
HeavyBid Fundamentals video series
This is the first video in my new video series on the fundamentals of HeavyBid. As any experiened estimator knows, backing up is vital and it’s best to do it often. Let me know what my next video should be on!
How to Access HeavyBid Tutorial
I get emails sometimes from companies saying that did not get HeavyBid launched successfully for one reason or another and what can they do? First make the commitment that Heavybid will not become expensive shelfware. I suggest this, complete the HCSS HeavyBid tutorial. HCSS has an…
How to Handle Tariffs in HeavyBid
Here is a quick run through of how I would address tariffs on purchased materials in HeavyBid using the escalation tool. Let me know if you enjoy following along to videos like this.
Estimating Mistakes Using HeavyBid that I See
I am usually in one or two contractors offices a week. I see some using HeavyBid very well and others not so much. The worst cases are the ones I just hear about because the company doesn’t train their estimators on best practices of HeavyBid. Here…
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